Andy Leszczynski wrote: >Jeremy Jones wrote: > > >>Andy Leszczynski wrote: >> >>Download the source, untar, cd to the new directory, run: >> >>./configure --prefix=/opt/mypython >>make >>make install >> >> > >Is there any way to pass the prefix to the "make install"? Why "make" >depends on that? > >A. > What does it matter? If you *could* pass it to make, what does that buy you? I'm not a make guru, but I'm not sure you can do this. Someone else better versed in make will certainly chime in if I'm wrong. But I think make just looks at the Makefile and does what it's going to do. If you want different behavior, you edit the Makefile or you get the Makefile created differently with configure.
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